Course General Description

La Maestría en Creación Audiovisual es un programa académico de investigación-creación, tal como se entiende desde las prácticas artísticas. Su método y objeto de estudio son los procesos de creación e innovación en la reflexión teórica, la actualización tecnológica y la experimentación creativa, para la producción de piezas audiovisuales. El programa entiende lo audiovisual como un dispositivo técnico e ideológico; así como una disciplina artística cuyo campo del saber incluye el estudio y la práctica de la percepción, producción, circulación y exhibición de la imagen audiovisual, en relación con sus entornos sociales, culturales, económicos, políticos y estéticos.

School General Description

The Pontifical Javeriana University is a Colombian institution and one of the oldest universities in South America, running continuously since its formation in 1623. As well as the core university in central Bogotá, there is also the Javeriana University in the southwestern city of Cali. Javeriana is one of 28 universities on the continent run by the Jesuit organisation Friends of Jesus, whose founder Francis Xavier is for whom the university is named. There are a total of nineteen faculties of study at Javeriana, with scientific sectors such as medicine or engineering, and humanities based areas such as the faculties of architecture and theology. In 2003 Javeriana was accredited as a high quality learning institution by the Ministry of National Education, the first university in Colombia to achieve this. At the faculty of nursing the research groups conceptualisation and practice of nursing have been formally recognised for its excellent research by innovation institute Colciencias. Students at the faculty can take either a general nursing or specialised undergraduate degree, as well as a master's in nursing care for the elderly.